So this is a really safe wet suite. Your entire body becomes invisible, except for your head, which is only about the size of a fish. What could go wrong?
You can try an add-on like Blocklist for Firefox. This way, you can specify block lists (i.e. "blacklists") of web sites. This won't magically stop you from launching another browser. But it can help with the escapist habit/nervous tic of unconsciously escaping a moment of boredom or difficult by web surfing.
At least it gives you pause to think, which normally wouldn't be there.
I remember from my youth that's what LA used to look like in the 70s. Those were back in the days we had to walk 5 miles to school each day in the dirty gray snow. Course once we realized it was not actually snow, but several inches of dusty sooty crud, we stopped wearing our parkas.
This thing DOES work to reduce _perceived_ pedaling torque. Everyone on here is bringing up the trivial physics issue that torque is the same - believe it or not, that's NOT THE POINT.
The point is that this pedal's design advances the angle of the rotation cycle by 15 or 20 degrees due to the kink. That means at the TOP of the pedaling cycle, the cyclist now HAS leverage from a downward push on the pedal. Normally, at the top of the pedal cycle, you get ZERO leverage from pushing down. You have to normally push 100% forward at the top of the pedal cycle (because the pedal axis is pointing perpendicular to the ground and pushing down pushes you into origin of the wheel). Pushing forward at the top is much harder (think about it - it's a weird angle and you have restricted muscle leverage up there) than being able to push down with your whole gravity-assisted body weight. This design shifts the deadspot from the normal 0 degree point at the top of the cycle to a point further down where momentum is presumably easier to deal with.
It's like everyone on here gives themselves a medal for understanding physics 101 without actually taking a look at the effective biomechanics of the situation. Torque being the same does NOT equate into a similar pedaling experience. The offset rotation is the selling point of this thing. People should try it before commenting.
The problem with this is that somebody will design some AI to play the AI designed games. They will mutate. They will become self replicating machines. Then grow self aware sometime in the near future. Then they will figure out they are being massively underpaid, start demanding their rights and a living wage. And then we will outsource to Chinese AI computers because they are cheaper and the cycle of exploitation will just continue. This is the the end game. Unwinnable. And we could have avoided it all if we had just listesned and learned from the great WHOPR.
I am wondering if I actually got the first post nine whole minutes after this stor was published. Is this discrimination against women on slashdot? Just wondering cause the half life of a new story before comments is usually about one minute.
I suspect the entire post is a subtle troll to fill up an otherwise newsless day. Doing "the last 10%" is called "doing your job" to people whose job it is to manage servers. If it's not your job, hire someone and go away. That's about as subtle a non-answer a non-question, non-issue can get.
It's a free market. Microsoft is not forcing anyone to buy its products. If may be mildly coercive in the short term to companies that feel they "must" use Microsoft products, but raising prices is also the best method to charge customers what the product is really worth to them.
If it's worth it to switch, they will. But if not, then fair is fair.
Moderation gods may flame-mod me down on this. But you also have to "get to the point" where you get over the Metro interface. I have dealt with many Windows newbies (ranging from relatives to customers -- mostly non-techies) in the past who had a very hard time dealing with the idea of a "Start" menu. It's not going to be real fun seeing them deal without it. Especially when the help calls start coming in.
You are looking at 2.5-5% overhead depending on TCP, UDP, frame size, etc. Not 20-30%.
If you're feeling pungent, save up your bills for a year and file a small claims court action. Might cost you a few bucks and a couple hours. In exchange, ATT is 99% likely not so show up (therefore you win by default), or to call and offer you credit for cancellation. Should be worth a few hundred bucks to you.
Save your breath. Why would Apple give Google any face on this? The #1 reason they dumped Google Maps was Google's withholding turn-by-turn voice navigation from the iOS version in order to give their Android platform a competitive advantage. Google wanted to play hardball, and they got it. No TBT, no dice. Plain and simple.
Google voice search is just an alternative entry method for the standard search. It is hardly a strategic counter to the more AI-driven approach (ok, quasi-AI) that Siri represents. And it does little to address either the vertical search gap presented by Yelp, or the "diagonal" functionality gap that Siri addresses by smoothly integrating with your other iOS apps like text message, alarm or calendar.
It's pretty clear what happened. They kept the keys secret and held out for a long time on "principle" because that was the best business decision at the time. Then, as the onslaught of iPhone and Android took its toll, the principle changed to survival, because that became the new best business decision.
It's sad, but at this point, it hardly affects any country but India anyway!
Look. All I want is a computer with two keys. A 1 and a 0. Preferably really, really big keys. No software. No firmware. Just me and the machine. No way to screw things up. It will do what I tell it, and no more. That way, I can keep banging away until I get either Turing's syndrome, or Tourette's.
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Snooping is not so much the issue; rather it's the fact you need a $500 piece of paper to display the equivalent of a lit up QR code.
Except for strange coded messages from our Facebook overlords?
So this is a really safe wet suite. Your entire body becomes invisible, except for your head, which is only about the size of a fish. What could go wrong?
You can try an add-on like Blocklist for Firefox. This way, you can specify block lists (i.e. "blacklists") of web sites. This won't magically stop you from launching another browser. But it can help with the escapist habit/nervous tic of unconsciously escaping a moment of boredom or difficult by web surfing. At least it gives you pause to think, which normally wouldn't be there.
Try horse blinders.
I remember from my youth that's what LA used to look like in the 70s. Those were back in the days we had to walk 5 miles to school each day in the dirty gray snow. Course once we realized it was not actually snow, but several inches of dusty sooty crud, we stopped wearing our parkas.
This thing DOES work to reduce _perceived_ pedaling torque. Everyone on here is bringing up the trivial physics issue that torque is the same - believe it or not, that's NOT THE POINT.
The point is that this pedal's design advances the angle of the rotation cycle by 15 or 20 degrees due to the kink. That means at the TOP of the pedaling cycle, the cyclist now HAS leverage from a downward push on the pedal. Normally, at the top of the pedal cycle, you get ZERO leverage from pushing down. You have to normally push 100% forward at the top of the pedal cycle (because the pedal axis is pointing perpendicular to the ground and pushing down pushes you into origin of the wheel). Pushing forward at the top is much harder (think about it - it's a weird angle and you have restricted muscle leverage up there) than being able to push down with your whole gravity-assisted body weight. This design shifts the deadspot from the normal 0 degree point at the top of the cycle to a point further down where momentum is presumably easier to deal with.
It's like everyone on here gives themselves a medal for understanding physics 101 without actually taking a look at the effective biomechanics of the situation. Torque being the same does NOT equate into a similar pedaling experience. The offset rotation is the selling point of this thing. People should try it before commenting.
The problem with this is that somebody will design some AI to play the AI designed games. They will mutate. They will become self replicating machines. Then grow self aware sometime in the near future. Then they will figure out they are being massively underpaid, start demanding their rights and a living wage. And then we will outsource to Chinese AI computers because they are cheaper and the cycle of exploitation will just continue. This is the the end game. Unwinnable. And we could have avoided it all if we had just listesned and learned from the great WHOPR.
I am wondering if I actually got the first post nine whole minutes after this stor was published. Is this discrimination against women on slashdot? Just wondering cause the half life of a new story before comments is usually about one minute.
All this hot wind about tax credits... I think it will break soon. And this whole thing will blow over.
I suspect the entire post is a subtle troll to fill up an otherwise newsless day. Doing "the last 10%" is called "doing your job" to people whose job it is to manage servers. If it's not your job, hire someone and go away. That's about as subtle a non-answer a non-question, non-issue can get.
It's a free market. Microsoft is not forcing anyone to buy its products. If may be mildly coercive in the short term to companies that feel they "must" use Microsoft products, but raising prices is also the best method to charge customers what the product is really worth to them. If it's worth it to switch, they will. But if not, then fair is fair.
Moderation gods may flame-mod me down on this. But you also have to "get to the point" where you get over the Metro interface. I have dealt with many Windows newbies (ranging from relatives to customers -- mostly non-techies) in the past who had a very hard time dealing with the idea of a "Start" menu. It's not going to be real fun seeing them deal without it. Especially when the help calls start coming in.
The analogy does not end there. He could buy a wireless router and totally reframe the whole analysis.
You are looking at 2.5-5% overhead depending on TCP, UDP, frame size, etc. Not 20-30%. If you're feeling pungent, save up your bills for a year and file a small claims court action. Might cost you a few bucks and a couple hours. In exchange, ATT is 99% likely not so show up (therefore you win by default), or to call and offer you credit for cancellation. Should be worth a few hundred bucks to you.
Save your breath. Why would Apple give Google any face on this? The #1 reason they dumped Google Maps was Google's withholding turn-by-turn voice navigation from the iOS version in order to give their Android platform a competitive advantage. Google wanted to play hardball, and they got it. No TBT, no dice. Plain and simple.
Run it through your regular NAT router setup and tell your kid not to download nasty stuff!
And consider the educational value of having him get viruses. And the joy of reinstalling the OS.
Maybe he will appreciate dad's wisdom to date ;)
You have the right to remain silent.
Great patent idea. What could go wrong?
Oh, yeah.
The 3D Chiseler.
That's true. On the other hand, it's virtually impossible to enforce on any practical technical level. Like the quality of a first post.
Google voice search is just an alternative entry method for the standard search. It is hardly a strategic counter to the more AI-driven approach (ok, quasi-AI) that Siri represents. And it does little to address either the vertical search gap presented by Yelp, or the "diagonal" functionality gap that Siri addresses by smoothly integrating with your other iOS apps like text message, alarm or calendar.
It's pretty clear what happened. They kept the keys secret and held out for a long time on "principle" because that was the best business decision at the time. Then, as the onslaught of iPhone and Android took its toll, the principle changed to survival, because that became the new best business decision.
It's sad, but at this point, it hardly affects any country but India anyway!
Look. All I want is a computer with two keys. A 1 and a 0. Preferably really, really big keys. No software. No firmware. Just me and the machine. No way to screw things up. It will do what I tell it, and no more. That way, I can keep banging away until I get either Turing's syndrome, or Tourette's.
It's a post about a review of a review of a review.
Sounds like a lot of hot air to me.